This week’s news stories are quite a bit about reconciling the past with the future. It’s a mixed bag of good and bad, as per usual, but there were a lot of interesting links to catch my eye. Let’s get started.

Greetings, Persephoneers! After our winter break and my vacation, we are back with some Friday News Bites, and this time, they’re mostly of the LGBT variety. First though, let’s have two fantastic best friends wish us a Happy New Year…

If you’re reading this right now, you have a stake in the fight over net neutrality. Why? You’re logged onto the internet, first and foremost. And I’d be willing to bet that you also have an iTunes account, a Facebook page, a PayPal account, an Amazon identity, and dozens, if not hundreds, of other connections to online forums and news sources and entertainment venues. Read More So…What is Net Neutrality?